Volunteering
Volunteer With Us
Volunteers play a vital role in all areas of our work at His Place
The chairty and all aspects of its work is delivered by volunteer in roles that are skilled and unskilled. Whether you are interested in heritage, community work, events, or music history, we’d love to hear from you. No matter what your skill or interest, even an hour makes a difference.
We offer opportunities for training and regular social events, so come and try your hand as a barista, cooking, tour guide, researcher, writing for social media, or helping to look after our beautiful building.
Volunteers working more than 4 hours on a day when the cafe is open will be provided with a light lunch. Unlimited tea and coffee. Volunteers working at other times are provided with unlimited tea and coffee. All volunteers are able to access free tickets to shows at Henry Ward Hall.
If you’d like to find out more or to apply, please complete our interest form and we will be in touch within a few days. If you have a physical or health challenge do not be put off we do our best to provide inclusive volunteering opportunities.
VOLUNTEERING VACANCIES UNDER AREA HEADINGS
Community & Cafe vacancies:
Saturday counter serving staff members – taking orders, making hot drinks such as Cappuccinos, Hot Chocolate, Tea etc… 2nd and 4th and 5th Sat of month.
Saturday cook 2 sat a month vacant, which ever saturdays suit you – preparing hot and cold food, making sandwhiches, frying chips and making the omlettes that are popular on a saturday.
Art and Craft Host – available times 2nd & 4th Tues Eve 6pm – 8pm and / or 1st and 3rd Saturday of month any hours between 10am – 3pm – we are looking to start the art and crafts acitvities up again and need someone with the skills to share knowledge and enable where possible. We have the crafts and paints and sewing machines but not the volunteers with the skills to make the most of them.
Building related, Heritage and Fundraising vacancies
Maintaince team member – do you enjoy cleaning gutters on flat roofs, doing odd jobs, little bit of painting, plumbing, mending cuboards, cleaning lofts and removing rubbish?, checking building fabric condition and helping with fire alarm checks? Matintaince team is open to anyone with or without experiance. If you have not got a building, joinery or plumbing back ground you won’t be able to help with those type of task but the diy and general maintinace tasks and monitoring of building you would be able to assist with. These tasks at the moment take place on 1st and 3rd Sat of the month but other times and days can be introuduced to ensure you have oportunity to help. Nicola and Keith the holding trustees are the leads for this team and easy to get on with. You might enjoy yourself so much you end up learning tech to with Keith in HWH.
Fundraiser team member – do you enjoy planning and implementing events large or small. Quiz nights, party nights, games events. Sporting events or outings? We are looking for more people to help with the fundraising required for the next stage of building restoration. It might be you enjoy writing grants and wish to help with the admin side of this rather than event and activities. You might be a behind the scenes person. Do get intouch share with us what intrests you and what you would like to do and we can see where you can fit in to the team. No minim engament required. Provide the time and support when you can from home or in person. Nicola and Christine oversea this part of are activtieies and more hands make light work. You will be able to manage your own fundraising activtieis or for our cuase if there small and do not require a whole team to be present. Support provided and equipment. You won’t be left to struggle.
Heritage carer – you might have an intrest in heritage artifacts such as books, tapistry, brass and wood furniture or items. Would you be intrested in learning how to care for the items in the building that are listed or over heritage intrest. We need a team to support with the care and treatment of the pews in church, the brass attachements etc, the linium flooring, the stained glass windows. There is no minimum or maximum volunteering contribution to this activtiy. You might want to help colate what we have or research the history of the items, the names of the poeple you will find too.
Cleaning team – you can imagine the size of the building, to clean the gallery alone is a 4 hour job with 4 volunteers. The church members come together every few months and have a social cleaning event followed by free lunch. Perhaps you don’t want to join in when there doing the cleaning but with some many spaces over 2.5 floors there is always some room to clean or equipment to clean. If you would find this a rewarding and relaxing activity your welcome to get intouch. It may be you just like cleaning glass in the doors and that is your chosen activity. Perhaps you have a heart for cleaning cubaords and tiding and cleaning toys. There is something for everyone and there is not requirement on speed. We clean when the cafe is open or the church is in use. Give us a shout if this is for you.
Marketing and publicity – do you have experiance in this area? or are you someone with socail media skills and wish to join the team. Publicising activties and events for all areas of His Place services, poster design, press releases etc. No minimum or maximum volunteer times, you could do this in your spare time around family or work commitments.
HIS PLACE CHURCH VOLUNTEER VACANCIES
Church muscians – we do like to have a jamming session and free time of worship if your looking to to be used and feel that His Place is for you why not come a long and join us for our infromal social jamming times which happen adhoc. If you start coming regualry on a Sunday and feel drawn to us and we feel the same there is a possibility that you will be invited to join the worship team. We also run community fun choir activities when we have musicans on hand.
Organ maintinance – we are looking for a retired organ repairer to provide advise on the care of the organ, support with knowlegde towards grant writing for the organ and the cleaning and managment of it as we have missed it being played and want to get it back into use. Must be retired or practicing profeshional with refrences.
Childrens workers – we are looking for children worker to join the team and grow the children activties available at His Place on Sundays and during the week. Experiance requried and refrences to support from previous positions for the lead worker.
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